Episode 292 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 4
Today, Annie channels her inner Frasier Crane to dispense bookish wisdom to her fellow readers.
The books mentioned in today’s episode can be purchased at The Bookshelf:
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
House Lessons by Erica Bauermeister
Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell
Jack by Marilynne Robinson
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Here For It by R. Eric Thomas
Stand All the Way Up by Sophie Hudson
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! by Jonathan Evison
The Big Finish by Brooke Fossey
The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Winters by Lisa Gabriele
Old Lovegood Girls by Gail Godwin
Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalb
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
The Sea Wife by Amity Gaige
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
A full transcript for today’s episode is available here.
From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com.
Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations.
This week, Annie is reading The Ghost at Dawn’s House by Ann M. Martin.
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